CONWAY, Ark. (May 27, 2014) – The Committee on Engaged Learning
(CEL) awarded more than $120,000 in Odyssey grants to 39 projects proposed
by Hendrix faculty and students in the April 2014 cycle. The grand total for
funding since the Odyssey Program’s inception in 2005 is $2.75 million.
The April Odyssey grant
recipients, their projects and project categories include:
Jair
Almaguer and Hsin-Ping Wang – A Multicultural Transitional Experience (Professional &
Leadership Development)
Megan
Barker – Summer
Theatre Internship (Professional & Leadership Development)
Grace
Blackmon – Gender and Education in Tanzania (Global Awareness)
Brittany
Cantrell – On Women and Writing: Professional Field Experience with a Feminist
Bookstore (Professional & Leadership Development)
Bethany
Cartwright – Mayor's Internship Program (Professional & Leadership
Development)
Nathanael
Drahn – Finnish Education:
What Helsinki has to Teach Us (Special Projects)
Charley
Ford – Internship with the
Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine (Professional &
Leadership Development)
Mitch
Harle – Political Work in
Washington, D.C. (Professional & Leadership Development)
Hannah
Hill – Guidance through
Support-A Volunteer Probation Officer Experience (Professional &
Leadership Development)
Jessica
Himes – Professional
Development through a Politics Internship (Professional & Leadership
Development)
Sophie
Knorek – Professional
Field Experience at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute: Critical links between
plankton and small pelagic fishes (Professional & Leadership Development)
Michaela
Larabee – Women's
Shelter of Central Arkansas (Professional & Leadership Development)
Marissa
Lee – Internship at the
Faulkner County Courthouse (Professional & Leadership Development)
Keen
Maher – Permaculture Farming
in the Costa Rican Forest (Global
Awareness)
Meet
Modi – Pediatric and
Adolescent Medicine in La Paz, Bolivia (Professional & Leadership
Development)
Serena
Murphy – Examining
Primate Behavior (Professional & Leadership Development)
Lauren
Nelson – Dream
Internship with Slow Food USA as Network Development Intern (Professional &
Leadership Development)
Anna
Nester – Summer
Internship with the Church Health Center in the Child Life Department (Professional
& Leadership Development)
Jill
Nguyen – A
Public Affairs and Law Professional Field Experience (Professional &
Leadership Development)
Rachel
Parmer and Jill Nguyen – Youth Activism and the Civil Rights Movement (Special Projects)
Rebecca
Perez – The Grace Hopper
Celebration of Women in Computing (Special Projects)
Tammi
Ragan – U.S. State Department
American Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia (Professional & Leadership
Development)
John
Ring – Career Discovery at
Harvard University (Professional & Leadership Development)
Elizabeth
Rogers – Assistant
at the Little Museum in Dublin, Ireland (Professional & Leadership
Development)
Blair
Schneider – Internship
with the Children's Room (Professional & Leadership Development)
Allison
Schrank – A
Summer of Marketing and Event Planning at TLU (Professional &
Leadership Development)
Graham
Senor and Drew Allen – Summer of Senate Management Experience (Professional &
Leadership Development)
Madeline
Spjut – Congressional Internship
in Washington, D.C. (Professional & Leadership Development)
Sam
Spjut – Choosing the Capital:
An Internship with Congressman McCaul (Professional & Leadership
Development)
Isabelle
Staines – Politics
and Social Justice Abroad (Professional & Leadership Development)
Haley
Thomson – Internship
at Splice Microcinema (Professional & Leadership Development)
Jessa
Thurman – Bottle
to Drawer Curations with Reference to Parasitic Hymenoptera of North America (Professional
& Leadership Development)
Sarah
Varnau – Internship
at Dallas Heritage Village (Professional & Leadership Development)
Laurie
Waters – Therapy
and Rehab Solutions Internship (Professional & Leadership
Development)
Reid
Zarker – Filmmakers
at Home and Abroad: Visit to The Jonas Mekas Center of Visual Arts in Vilnius,
Lithuania (Special Projects)
Dr.
Rod Miller – Senior
Art Major Trip to NYC (Special Projects)
Professor
Mary Richardson – Hendrix Mock Trial Association (Special Projects)
Founded in 1876, Hendrix College is a national leader in
engaged liberal arts and sciences education. For the sixth consecutive year,
Hendrix was named one of the country’s “Up and Coming” liberal arts colleges by
U.S. News and World Report. Hendrix is featured in the latest edition of Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change
the Way You Think about Colleges,
as well as the 2014 Princeton Review’s The Best 378 Colleges, Forbes magazine's list of America's Top Colleges, and
the 2014 Fiske Guide to Colleges. Hendrix has been affiliated with the United
Methodist Church since 1884. For more information, visit www.hendrix.edu.